skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvidia might find itself in a similar position soon if its Tegra line-up doesn't become significantly more popular and successful. Intel is squeezing them out of the market with its integrated graphics in laptops, and I think that's quite a shame because I don't think Intel played fair there. They tried to force manufacturers to use integrated graphics even if the laptop used discrete graphics. Now that Intel's integrated graphics chips are becoming "good enough" for most people, it's going to be a very smooth transition to take Nvidia out of the laptop market.

So Intel is killing both AMD and Nvidia. Hopefully Nvidia has the last say with its ARM-based chips, though. If ARM ends up disrupting Intel in all its markets, and if Nvidia remains one of the best ARM chip makers, then Nvidia will ultimately win.

That can't be said about AMD, though. They're stuck in an x86 world where they're falling further and further behind Intel, and they haven't even begun to enter the ARM world, and even if they do, it might be too late now, because they lack the ARM engineering experience of their competitors. Buying the OMAP division from TI might help, but OMAP is not doing that great now either, and they always use overclocked last-gen GPU's to compete with the new mobile GPU's, which I find a bit annoying. Plus, I don't know if AMD can even afford them, or the turn-around that comes with that. Another interesting acquisition target could be MIPS, which is for sale, but AMD would have to also promote the benefits of that architecture on their own, which seems even harder.
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I've always had a soft spot for Andy Clarke's (much older) CSS Specificity Wars poster: http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_w...
Meet the algorithm that’s way better than you at Sudoku
I updated the library on Github: now it doesn't use concat anymore!
Shipping 1.0
Chrome Web Labs
I hope all this minimalism is just a passing fad.
>I think that there is a tendency amongst us westerners to believe that meditation is about attaining something

Of course there is. It's the only rational reason to do something: for present or future benefit. Otherwise you quit the realm of reason and enter the domain of religion.
I reckon their license agreement with themselves expired...
Hello World won't save you neither.
hhahaah
(I will use 'save-code' to mean the SRAM_V123 strings embedded in ROM images, and 'save-type' to mean the actual non-volatile storage configuration the game expects)

So, there's a couple of ways you can go:

- you can go the full auto-detection path. EEPROM access and size is easy to detect, I think it's fairly reliable to detect SRAM access, but unfortunately you can't dynamically detect Flash configuration - the first question the game asks the hardware is 'which Flash storage protocol do you want' and there's no way for the emulator to figure out how to answer that question ahead of time.
- You can go the full static-detection path, based on scanning for save-codes. This is pointless, because you can't determine whether the game wants 6 or 14-bit EEPROM data, and you still can't determine the Flash storage protocol. Also, there are games that contain two different save-codes but only work with one save-type, and of course there's Top Gun which contains all the different save-codes, but will ignore the A button at the main-menu if it finds any any non-volatile storage present.

- You can go full database-mode. This is what bsnes intends to do eventually, but it's kind of hampered by the fact there is no (known) complete database of save types.

- You can go a hybrid system. VBA does something like this: if the game is listed in vba-over.ini, use that save-type. Otherwise, guess based on the save-code: SRAM is easy, EEPROM starts in an 'unknown size' mode and automatically configures itself as soon as the game pokes at the emulated hardware, Flash picks some reasonable defaults and lets the user change them if they don't work. This obviously gives you really good compatibility but is horribly complicated to build.

The database I have at the moment only contains known-good configuration for the ROM images known to have two-or-more save-codes, plus one or two other games mentioned by users on the bsnes forums. It occurs to me that if you had some kind of UI where users could change the emulated storage configuration until it worked, you could have some kind of 'submit configuration' button, and the database might be built up that way.
The SmoothLifeConfig.txt doesn't have a line for SmoothLifeL - it should, Stephan!

Here it is:

2 1 10.0 3.0 10.0 0.100 0.257 0.336 0.365 0.549 2 4 4 0.028 0.147 // SmoothLifeL

Put this at the top of SmoothLifeConfig.txt and run the exe.

You'll notice that some of the parameters (the 2 4 4) control the transition function. This is different to the version in the paper which is smoothglider (which is in the config file) which uses 4 4 4.
The promise of WebGL
WOW!!! what a creativity.

DOCTYPE is also missing :)
It appears the main US home page still works, at least: http://www.oracle.com/us/index.html

Also, it's been this way for over an hour: https://twitter.com/freebalance/status/257044942780760064
Day For Failure
Sandboxes all the way down. Cf. Chrome.
Here's one interesting short guide: http://lesswrong.com/lw/5jj/meditation_insight_and_rationali...
I like it much better than the old one. I hope it stays that way :)
stuck on a corporate network managed by dip shit admin's wont open up anything but ftp (and even that will require executive approval).

presume that rather then fighting them you could just use this. the public sector has taught me to look for technical solutions that negate human problems.
I wonder if, considering many of these cheap or free web hosts support PHP, you could get git to talk to a PHP script server-side over HTTP?
cheap, I was expecting an exclamation mark there
The "bios.bin" in the resources directory is 216 bytes; the proprietary GBA bios is 16KB. I'm pretty sure this the author's own code.
They are following the minimalistic and flat design trend.
LulzSec hacker “neuron” pleads guilty to Sony Pictures security breach
http://shomi.associatedtechs.com/#top+submissions+from+techd...

Looks like mostly political stuff, or stuff filling the void left behind by Valleywag.

I don't really care much one way or the other though.
Wouldn't it be better to have two asset pages, one for JS and one for CSS. ( unless there's a way to merge those two )

I don't know how often google changes that code, but even if it were as often as weekly, users would gain the benefit of caching those files and loading locally, thereby making the page even less to download.

Or are those two http hits really that expensive?

The only reason I can think it is a bad idea is caching could hurt them. If the browser doesn't handle caching correctly, and they do change the source, frequently or infrequently, users may see broken pages and/or broken functionality. Not all users know of Shift-reload, none should need to, and I find it doesn't work reliably myself.

What is the best practice here? 2 http requests, embedded code on the page, arbitrary http requests that are cached, no caching, etc.?
They shure didn't want this to happen but they also demonstrated they were able to manage engine failure. That's worth something for the future.
I don't know the recent progress in catarse, but when we checked last year, it was just a skeleton.

One company I know chose Agriya recently, as it's fairly easy to find programmers.. as it seems to be popular in this segment.. and money wasn't constraint for them as they planned to get big cut from campaign creators.
Probably not (based on the time between the critique and the release)
Why hasn't PyPy been merged into the Python trunk?
Ada Lovelace was not the first computer programmer
Hmm, if you are timing the experience in order to categorize it later, is your mind, maybe, not empty?
Security by blacklists and whitelists. :-(
It's really fast!
F Zero GP Legend (rs-fzgl.gba) worked for me (FF 15.0.1).

It's running at ~80% speed, I suppose we can't expect much more from today's js engines. But given how much faster the engines have gotten in the last few years, I think this is just a matter of time.

Thanks to all developers who are making this happen!
Now that's a blog name that I sense will come strong given enough time and care.
I tried using it following your "Quick Start" guide, but failed miserably :(

- How do I set the status of a Page (for example to ``Ready`` or ``In progress``).

- Where can i see the final result? On index.html? Do I need to parse the project.md somehow?
On a similar note, I'm currently in the planning phase of building a "specificity calculator" as a bundle for TextMate. It will mostly be targeted towards complicated CSS files and the people who create them but I imagine it will also be helpful for people new to CSS. Would any of you guys have interest in such a bundle?
Everything is under control, as they announced here:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/w...

They are just migrating to JDK 7.
strange, it doesn't have copyright sign.
TSMC Seen to be Sole 20nm Process Supplier to Apple Quad Processors
I'm always annoyed at myself and others at work when our site goes down for a period of time and we didn't get some kind of notification telling me so... considering that this has apparently been happening for at least an hour, I'm feeling a whole lot better now.
Maybe they'll divert some investment away from their legal department towards engineering.

No offence intended to Oracle engineers on HN!
You are probably not very good at most things
I always use the 'canonical' K&R version: "hello, world". No capitalization, no full stop or exclamation mark, comma used before direct address.
</quirk> ;)
Genuine question: at what age is Olber's Paradox explored in high school physics these days? (It was part of my A-level physics curriculum in the UK, age 17, circa 1981 ... I'm finding it rather odd that it was unfamiliar to this journalist!)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a scientific research group studying this area. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds: http://www.investigatinghealthyminds.org/cihmWhat.html

"The Center is embarking on a series of research programs in both long-term meditation practitioners as well as more novice practitioners to examine how such training affects the brain and body, and also to provide critical information on how to structure interventions to make them more successful."

This is a 2010 New York Times article describing that: "The center’s mission was inspired by a meeting between Dr. Davidson and the Dalai Lama in 1992 in the Himalayas." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27happy.html?_r=4&t...;
Use Google Analytics as "New Relic" performance monitoring for your Rails app
Pingdom tends to work pretty well.
Right now, Intel and ARMs business are very much segregated. Each of the two is making steps into foreign country, but with relatively meager success.

To clarify: ARMs business is the embedded and booming smartphone market, Intel has the never-going-to-cease-to-exist high performance server and workstation market. The fate of the thing between, consumer and "office" PCs, is very much unknown.
This Must Be Heaven
Another discussion of Olbers' Paradox (that predates Dark Energy):

http://www.arachnoid.com/sky/
> at what age is Olber's Paradox explored in high school physics these days?

To the best of my knowledge, and in general, it isn't.

> I'm finding it rather odd that it was unfamiliar to this journalist!

It wasn't. It was unfamiliar to his daughter. He posted it because he's aware that the public is generally unaware of it, not that he is.
The exclamation mark would've been there, but it's now closed source, you'll have to buy the new Oracle EM if you want that.
Slightly OT, but you probably want to rephrase or get rid of this sentence. _"Yet I'm a rockstar to mediocre people."_ It probably won't earn you much sympathy in these parts. Also looking forward to the answers, as I see some of my own fears/shortcomings in your post.
Is Thin-Film Solar Dead?
I was taught about it in my A level physics class circa 2002... Not sure if it was part of the curriculum though.
I lol'ed hard !
Can someone clarify this for me? Why does the contract with NASA forbid them to restart the engine unless they have a 99% chance of completing a second burn?

Is the problem here that if you start a second burn and have to end it prematurely, you could end up in an orbit intersecting the ISS?
I removed it already. Actually I think I'll delete the whole thing. Rephrase in a better way later maybe. Sorry for wasting your time.
+1 on Pingdom but don't forget to test actual content and not just a "200 OK" server response. It's common to test if a site is UP but not if the content it's serving is correct. Make sure to content match because Oracle.com is returning a "200 OK" status even though this probably isn't what Oracle considers "OK".
Probably more forgetful than malice. I can imagine them having tried 100's of designs/photographs, all licensed as "comps", to then pick the top 5 and use those in the ads. The last step should have been "relicense the photographs for ad use", but apparently this wasn't done. Maybe some intern forgot to file some papers.

What I find curious is that the photographer's studio is aggressively going after profits made by Apple. Maybe the studio notified Apple they had the wrong license, something that I can imagine happens a lot in this world, and Apple gave them the finger. Or maybe the photographer wants to squeeze the most out of Apple's honest mistake. Maybe something in between.
The point isn't that people were being social over email. The point is that people were using email as a social layer on top of the web (i.e., they'd email links around). What we now call the "social web" is just the web as a platform taking over functions that before were performed over other internet technologies like email and IM.
When 3dfx started flailing, they sued NVidia for IP infringement until NVidia purchased them. I could see the board of AMD doing the same thing, patent trolling everyone in sight until somebody buys them out.
Using the deprecated "center" html tag? tsk tsk
Other than that brilliant design.
Can it support latest Delphi codes? Has anyone tried the cross platform support? (Though I still love Delphi, sadly I'm now far away from it...)
Excuse my ignorance but what do people use Pascal for these days?

I remember learning Pascal back in middle and high school, because it was the teaching language of choice, but now that Python, Scheme and Jave have taken the title of preferred teaching language in many schools, what else is it used for? Greenfield projects or mainly maintenance of legacy code?

I'm not trying to troll here. I'm genuinely curious.
But pinging it doesn't tell you if DNS service is up/down.
Put a cost on not getting what you want. An utterly extortionate one. That will sway the balance. No managerial position will want to be seen driving costs up. Works for me every time.

Fortunately I work at a company now where the software team rules with an iron fist and managers whimper behind their desks at the mighty shitstorm that happens when they put pointless walls up.
Oracle.com - hello world
I don't think you are right - people are watching this video to see a dancing baby,not listen to music. The music is not the main object of this video.
So does mine but they're too far from the other keys...
Why is jwz so much more famous than the other engineers who worked at Netscape?
May be pornography?
keep going that minimalistic way, lol
I have fond memories of Turbo Pascal.
I'm already downloading.
Thanks for this!
Really, are there any Oracle engineers on HN, even just lurking about?
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I stumbled upon this by accident a couple of years ago. Setup your internal network to start at 10.0.0.1 (or should I say…10.1), and you'll never need to type out a bunch of zeros again! My NAS has a static IP of 10.2. :)
it seems you can even drag and play with the google logo...nice :)
Sorry if that doesn't seem to be clear enough! Good questions, I'll update the Guide soon.

- So you put all the page names inside the /project.md file. Now, according to what you just put in there, you upload your page templates/projects to 'project/' directory (each page being a separate directory that matches one on the list created inside /project.md). `Ready` status is simply when page directory exists, and `In progress` when it's only listed inside the /project.md file but is not yet created.

- This one is super simple. Just upload the projector directory to your server and rename it as you wish eg. domain.com/clients/sony/ ('sony' being your projector folder) and access that url.
> According to Newsweek, Alexander’s experience proves that consciousness is independent of the brain, that death is an illusion, and that an eternity of perfect splendor awaits us beyond the grave ...

If the account proved anything, it would be that science is dead. But let's not let one anecdote overturn all we think we know about consciousness and life, solely because it supports an attractive belief.

The story might be true, but we don't know this, in anything resembling a reliable or scientific sense.

The plural of anecdote is not data.
Join Oracle and others to celebrate the International Day for Failuer
For those who read this once they fix it. The homepage of oracle.com is simply
<html>
<body>
<center>
<p>
<h2>
Hello World
</h2>
</p>
</center>
</body>
</html>
It's not a paradox.

It's failure to understand the basic balance of entropy and centropy.
NVIDIA still owns the high-end scientific computing market. This combined with their ARM products could save it in the future. AMD...their only advantage has been X86 and that is just a dying market, kudos to the board at least for dumping the CEO who wanted to focus on the high end PC market. AMD still has really good GPU tech, enough to compete with NVIDIA on the high-end non-GPGPU market, but that is very niche.
Here's a screenshot as well http://cl.ly/K7Cl
And furthermore, one with direct relevance to YC and its alumni.
Haha, this is the best comment by far.
maybe the sun folks
Cloud-based data centers are beginning to adopt ARMs for power consumption reasons. If that trend picks up along with everyone using cloud providers, then I think even the high-end PC server business could start dying. Incidentally, this is a market where NVIDIA could begin to really cream Intel, a lot of scientific computing has already moved over to CUDA/Tesla (granted, there is a huge difference between scientific and enterprise applications). I don't see the same thing happening to workstations, however, difficult to move that work into the cloud.
Countdown to 5 more HN posts with open source reimplementations of Oracle's new UI style. With proper CSS of course, none of those center tags.

By tomorrow every blog story linked will be using this ultra minimalist design.
the copyright date is when the page gets rendered
or that's what i'd assume legal would say
a world without Java?)
Because I host on windows and don't have Git installed.
I've been meditating pretty much every day for a few months now, and the thing that got me into it was getsomeheadspace.com

I've found it incredibly helpful - having a different guided meditation to do on the train every day makes the London commute, whilst not blissful, certainly better.
I used this a while back when I still did PHP work, deploying to shared hosts. I personally enjoyed using it and don't recall having had any issues with it. It's not much use if you have shell access of some sort on your server, though.
And http://oracle.com/? redirects there.
This is really old, created in 2009/03/18. You an also use: gravoogle.com or gravigoogle.com to get to this page. He also created the Google Sphere a couple of months later, though that one has never been updated to the new design: http://mrdoob.com/96/google_sphere
About the quote: I first came across this quote in my college library,in some linux book.Though I didn't know who wrote this quote at that time,I really liked it and wrote it down on my college books.I was the only guy who was sticking with linux ,where as all my friends advised me to switch to j2ee/.net platform because thats where jobs are available for it but not linux.

When I told,I'm going to do something project with linux,the reply will be "Linux is OS,what could you possible do with it?".I still remember,the day-before When a company came for campus recruitment,I was doing some linux related on my new desktop.Then one friend commented 'he doesn't need to be prepare for interview,he will get a job with linux :P'.

Next day,I was lucky to meet a linux-enthusiast in my interview panel and 9 students got a job out of 180 students.My name topped that list !:)

Few days later,the same guy who commented a day-before the interview,saw this quote on my book asked 'did you wrote this quote?'.I said,"read it some book". again he insisted 'don't lie,looks like you wrote this'.I replied 'no i didn't'

In my final-year college project,I mentioned thanks for my parents and my guide and 'unknown' person who wrote this quote.

After few years,one of my oss project received foss india awards (www.giis.co.in/LFY.png).I came to know to this quote was actually written by Gandhi.

As for as I'm concern this quote has 3 questions :

What will you do when others ignore you? [are you going to give up?]
What will you do when others laugh at you? [are you going to get discouraged ?]
What will you do when others fight with you? [are you going to quarrel with them? or shut-up & continue your work]
Interesting Java marketing?
You'd be surprised at how few __cheap__ shared hosts provide SSH. Sometimes that's all that's available to you, for cost or managerial reasons.
Poor Engineers :/
Board untouched....
> This study thesis is based on Android version 2.2. which is the latest release as of
writing.

Yeah... interesting, but you may want to look for more up to date sources.
Your link is broken, might want to URL encode that question mark.
A big portion of that may be the call centers though.
OK, looks like the normal website is back now...
HN Guidelines:

> What to Submit

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

The teeth / soda thing is mildly interesting because the science isn't great.

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Prattle about some Internet user on some website is shallowly, but intensely, interesting.
It's been fixed 4 minutes now.
Show's over folks, you can return to your regularly scheduled procrastination.
It's back to its old style now.
Shame, I was just getting used to it.
Hacking this weekend? Don't be alone
Wikistats: Wikimedia Statistics
I wonder how Google indexes pages generated by Wt ... I can't really find any indexable content when looking at the examples HTML source code.
You can use ElasticSearch (based on Lucene - http://www.elasticsearch.org/) if Solr/Lucene seems to complex. I wasn't very successful in getting a stable setup when I tested it (more than a year ago), but as you can see from their web page, they aim at making things easier.
Nice. The support options are basically the same, and it loads so much faster now!
Seems to have been fixed... but red much?!
Clarke's lacks inline style and !important.

Sure, they should be used with care, but !important is actually really useful in responsive webdesign.
"Do you still want to be writing Game of Life easter aggs when you're 50?"